Managing POs, vendor bids, and budgets across 15+ active homes is chaos. Things fall through the cracks. You don't know where money is going until the home closes. Foreman AI changes that — in plain English.
You don't know where POs stand
Bids come in via email, text, and phone. Nobody has a complete picture of what's been sent, received, or awarded.
Budget overruns surprise you
By the time you notice framing went 15% over, it's too late to react. The damage is already done.
Parts pricing is stale
Your parts catalog has prices from 18 months ago. You're estimating based on old data and eating the difference.
Vendor performance is guesswork
You know which subs you prefer — but you can't actually tell your PM who responds to bids and who ghosts them.
This is what Foreman AI can do with your actual purchasing data right now.
“Create a bid request for all Plumbing vendors for Bayshore Commons community”
Bid request drafted with community specs, scope details, plan set reference, and submission deadline. Portal invites sent to 8 active plumbing vendors in your system.
“Scrape Home Depot for GE Profile refrigerators and add them to our parts catalog”
Found 6 GE Profile models. Added to parts catalog with SKUs, current prices, dimensions, and specs. Ready to link to design center options.
“Flag any homes where actual costs are more than 10% over budget”
3 homes flagged: 1421 Maple (framing +14%), 880 Lakeside (HVAC +11%), 33 Cedar Point (plumbing +18%). Breakdown by scope with recommended actions.
“Generate a Scope of Work for framing at 1234 Oak Street”
Professional SOW generated with home specs, lumber counts, structural notes, and completion timeline. Exported as PDF — ready to send to subs.
“Show me vendor performance — which subs have the best bid response rate?”
Scorecard across 24 vendors: Apex Framing 94% response rate (8/8 bids), City Plumbing 62% (5/8), Roberts Electric 100% (6/6). Win rates and avg bid amounts included.
“Show me vendor performance — which subs have the best bid response rate?”
Scorecard across 24 vendors: Apex Framing 94% response rate (8/8 bids), City Plumbing 62% (5/8), Roberts Electric 100% (6/6). Win rates and avg bid amounts included.
Not a generic PO tool. Purpose-built for residential home builders managing multiple communities.
Search, create, bulk import, and update parts. Web scraping to pull current pricing from Home Depot, Ferguson, 84 Lumber, and more. Auto-linked to your design center.
Full vendor directory with performance scorecards. Bid response rates, win rates, insurance tracking, and contact history — all in one place.
Draft bid requests, send portal invites, compare normalized bids, and generate bid comparison reports. Foreman ranks vendors and recommends best value.
Real-time budget vs. actual across all homes. Variance flags, scope-level breakdowns, and profitability reports by community — generated in plain English.
Generate professional purchase orders and Scope of Work documents from your real project data. Excel exports with company branding, ready to sign.
Most construction software treats scheduling and purchasing as two separate systems. In Cornerstone, they're connected — your task completions can trigger PO generation automatically.
When a construction task is marked complete, Cornerstone can auto-generate a full PO for that scope and vendor — no manual step required.
Need to pay a deposit at permit pull or contract signing? Generate a deposit PO from any earlier pipeline task, before the work is done.
Turn PO generation on or off for specific tasks, or disable it entirely for certain scopes. You control the rules.
Pro+ exposes a full REST API so any AI agent — custom-built, voice-based, or email-scanning — can read and write your Cornerstone data. The optionality is unlimited.
Your voice agent calls a roofing company, gets their contact info, and Cornerstone adds them as a vendor automatically. Zero manual entry.
An email agent reads incoming vendor emails, extracts bid data, and logs it in Cornerstone — no one touches the keyboard.
Voice agent calls your vendor list, explains the scope, and directs them to your bid portal. 200+ vendors contacted in an afternoon.
Agent monitors task completions and triggers PO generation automatically — the schedule drives purchasing without you in the loop.
Agent calls the framer who hasn't confirmed their schedule date. Records the outcome. Updates the task status.
Claude, GPT-4, LangChain, custom-built — if it can make an HTTP request, it can act on your Cornerstone data.
Foreman AI handles your bids, budgets, vendor tracking, and POs — in plain English. Beta is free for 2 years. Limited to 100 builders.
Pro plan · $499/mo · Unlimited users · 2 years free in beta